RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE

Lots of good advice already What kind of music are you into ? Who are your bass influences ? The reason I ask this , is that you may ( or probably ) find a beginners lesson on you tube by one of your favourite bass players.You'll definitely get a feee lesson from 'unknown ' but brilliant teachers on there anyhow . Fwiw, when I first started attempting to play bass I started off with a plectrum . This was about a yea or so before I started going to go to gigs . Then I saw Steve Harris at the music machine / marquee etc and thought I'd better do fingers instead . Troubl is , his style of finger playing is advanced / unique so I was playing out of sync . Years later I stumbled across Rudy sarzo hot licks video . VHS , way before internet . A little cheesy , but it improved my playing a lot .. That was before I had proper 1 on 1 tuition ( wish I kept that up ) . In my latter days while gigging I ended up doing both . One other thing to mention , is that being relaxed about it all is key . It's very easy to get tense and putting undue pressure on yourself by being annoyed by making mistakes ( if that makes sense) ..

Elvis will always be gigging

I have the strap length the same sitting down or standing . As told by Billy Sheehan .

Me first and gimmies do good versions of Summertime , Somewhere over the rainbow plus a couple of others I've probably forgot . Maybe worth having a listen

On a slight tangent , I have a few CDs of Me First And The Gimmie Gimmies . Marvellous and hilarious on first few listens , but some things are too 'American ' and may be lost on younger listeners as they may not know a lot of their catalogue . To describe them , I'd say they're kinda pop punk in the style of offspring , but very talented . Nice bass playing too. If I was still into playing in bands, I wouldn't mind doing something similar .

yes granted . 🙂 It was more of a memo to myself, as I and others have contributed to old threads in the past and they soon died off again . That's why I deleted my previous post here . Apologies to all offended . I will probably checkout the recommendation should I get the enthusiasm to do so 🙂

Thanks for the suggestion . I do know rock BTW 🙂 . I have and have had stuff from cannibal corpse to Celtic frost etc . I may checkout your recommendation though at some stage . Having said that , Pavarotti was cool and I have watched the three tenors on tv 👍 🙂

This thread is years old 🤦

Coffee ☕️table back in spare bedroom . It was bugging me this morning 🐞 I'd say that the only real way to have the setup that woukd work in the living room , woukd be for me to have a moog sound studio which would fit on the display unit. only one mains adapter which is a plus . . A new Mac mini would be possible as mentioned earlier.. However , I already have the grandmother and dfam so that would be pointless . still , it was worth a try .

I think tomorrow will be a busy day cleaning carpet , and picking up the spaghetti cables everywhere also 😺

Good points ,and thanks for them . Thread deleted as I need to stop procrastinating 🙂

I've purchased a few things from them over the years . Always good . Always helpful .

Mmm...🤔.more chad valley or fisher price quality imho . I don't think I could buy in confidence it has to be said .

Maybe the drummer could buy her a moog for Christmas , and she could learn that . 🤫 otherwise ..' no !'

It's not just me then 🙂. Something to focus on next year ..

I keep biting my fingernails to the bare minimum . A bad habit that I'll have to stop in the new year 😬

Dings / dents / at back of the neck would probably affect resale value imho . That's assuming you may want to sell in the future . You never know . On a slight tangent , I've seen a few reviews of Ibanez basses with similar necks ( the headless basses in particular) where reviewers such as Low End Lobster 🦞 weren't overly impressed with Ibanez quality control . Apparently , they're mainly manufactured in the Cort factory among other brands but iI stand to be corrected . i think you did the right thing returning it due to description , but the bigger discount seems to be evident now due to ' imperfections'. The fingerboard you could possibly live with, but the neck issue would be nagging away at you over time .

Silly me , he used to endorse ovation magnums 😬

Tom selleck

Yes! A lot of fun with multi fx . Will keep him occupied I'd say